, 5 vp.r. The limelight was turned today on * little town in northern New ¥ork, just before you get to the Canadian border. One of the last big shots of the prohibition era was put on trial there. Several months ago, Dutch Schultz was tried at Syracuse for income | tax evasions, the same sort of charge that sent Scarf ace A1 Capone to Alcatraz. At Syracuse, the jury disagreed. Now the second trial is on. Amid a setting of rural hills, guards and a cordon of burly I state troopers, the government continues its determined attempt to put the former Baron of New York Beer behind- bars. And once more we are reminded of a fantastic story of the A boy who went to the Bronx school, of which the principal was Dr. Condon, the fabulous nJafsie” of the Lindbergh case. The lad ^o his first job as a telephone boy at the headquarters of a g York beer runner. That baron-of-t** brew sank into a sudden grave, sent there by gangster guns. He was succeeded by the smart young office boy, who rose swiftly to hig- shot-eminence as Dutch Schults reported to have offered a hundred thousand dol federal agents if they wouldn't prosecute him on the income tax charge, a^d another hundred thousand dollars to campaign funds*Jfhich^par y. SCHULTZ, - S That's the story which takes us to the court room of the Sew York border to™ of Malone, where the first dramatic scene occurred, when the judge^aid: "Put him in jail". Dutch Schultz, out*?^ bail, was ordered to a prison cell for the dura tit on of the A trial, and the former beer baron didnft like it. He was angry ard scowling, as they led him to the dungeon. STRIKf O Soldiers with helmets, 'bayonets and machine guns are tonight in command 0f Terre Haute, Indiana, Governor Paul lolutt, war veteran and one time National Commander of the American Legion, gave a prompt and overwhelming answer to the Mayor&s call for military help. Two thousand soldiers of the National Guard marched into the city. So the day at Terre Haute was one of paralyzing general strike and military control. The first incident of rioting and tear gas came this morning, vtien several thousand assembled strikers refused to obey the order to disperse. The soldiers charged with a barrage of the weeping vapor, and dispersed the meeting. The National Guard officers notified business establishments, tied up by the strike, that they could get military protection if they wanted it. So today there was some activity, with trolley ears, milk wagons, delivery trucks, rolling through the streets under guard of soldiers. The Merchants Association decided to defy the strike leaders* order to close up, Mid determined to open a hundred and fifty odd stores, under the protection of bayonets. So the day witnessed STRIKE - 2 a slow return to 'business activity, A second incident of rioting and tear gas occured, with an angry crowd assembled before the factory where the original small strike began some time ago — the minor walk­ out that grew into the present general strike, A cordon of soldiers was on guard around the plant. Several hundred strikers pressed forward with a wild rush. So once more tear gas bombs were tossed TROPHY Several months ago in Washington I provoked a smile Hy asking a question — what kind of beam is the radio beam? The man I was talking to was Captain Albert 3?, Hegenberger of the United States Army. He told me the radio beam was not a beam at all. It merely acted like a beam. It was no more than the effect of radio signals coming from opposite direction and heard through a radio telephone. And no wonder he smiled when he stated this elementary fact, for Captain Hegenberger is the Army's expert on blind flying. It was he who supervised the development of the system that enables pilots to land in dense fogs or black darkness — blind, ■si I found in him a technician-aviator, with that straight­ ahead single purpose of mind, interested in nothing else, willing to talk about nothing else, save the ultra-modem technic of blind flying. And mighty important that is — as is emphasized by this year's award of the Collier Trophy - founded by the founder of Colliers, So says Ed. Anthony speaking from his Connecticut country estate: Headache in the Hills, This time the big prize TROPHY - 2 goes to Captain Hegenberger aa tlie raan wlio bas made tbe year*a moat significant contribution to aviation. The trophy was presented with due ceremony by President Roosevelt in Washington. Another aviation news flash from Washington today tells that globe girdler Clyde Pangbom will lead a sky fleet north­ ward on Sunday. It will be a massed flight of American planes to Nova Scotia, at the invitation of the Canadian Flying Clubs Association. Flyers from New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia will attend the Hundred and Fiftieth Birthday celebration of the Nova Scotian town of Sidney. And the Yankee cloud land armada will be led by Clyde Pangbom in the new Uppercu-Bumelli all­ wing transport, the ship in which he plans to circle the world non-stop MHIOPIA A birthday party is a pleasant affair of cake cutting and ||| | 1 blowing out^candles though I donft know how far they go in for birthday calces and candles at Addis Ababa* Scenes of gaiety can have 111 1 portentous meanings. History records the celebrated ball before Waterloo - British officers dancing in glittering social scene, and A then vanishing away to battle, galloping to the field of Waterloo, * /V Perhaps the birthday party at Addis Ababa ■may go on record in somewhat the same way - a significant revelry preceding war. Because the Italian minister did not go to the party. It might seem that an invited guest failing to show up^Bd^ii* be so darkly ominous, but diploma tie observers today are saying with pointed emphasis,Athe first move for a diplomatic break between Rome and Addis Ababa has been made. Hitherto, itac with all the openly admitted expectations of war, the diplomatic formalities have been observed - but not now any longer. The Emperor Haile Selassie is forty-four, and he threw a spectacular birthday party, wlth^the foreign diplomatic corps as the leading guests. The ministers from many lands were there. From Tokyo the Emperor Hirohito sent birthday congratulations to the J^HIOPIA - 2 i Eaperor ^aile Selassie. Significant, because of the solicitude Japan is showing toward Ethiopia, because o^JaparU^4championship of equal rights for the colored races of the world. Everybody noticed the conspicuous absence - neither the Italian minister nor any member of the Italian Legation at the party. Why this affront? It was because of that oration the King of Kings p H ■it i. delivered several days ago, denouncing Mussolini. The Italians m. iplomatic. considered that a diploms So one good affront deserves another. High personalities in the Ethiopian government quickly declared that the Italian action in cutting Haile Selassie^s birthday party was a provocative act of unfriendliness, A small bit of social by-play, but in the circles of state­ craft they look upon it as the first formal break of the diplomatic amenities. Another social aspect of that huge disturbance growing in 1 II Africa is witnessed here in New York. Several evenings ago we heard about the Abyssiniah royal Princess RAssari Heshla Taman}a. first cousin of the Emperor - at least that's what .she. says. Clad in gorgeous raiment, she delivered impressive | 1 ill jiaigpiA - s messages to America on behalf of Ethiopia. It seems that the Princess E$ssarl Heshla Tamanya has been a social leading light of Harlem for some time, - singing songs at parties, native #r songs - but^what country she is a native is in doubt . Because the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Addis Ababa has taken the trouble to send a cablegram to this country, informing the newspapers that the Princess is an imposter and unknown in Ethiopia*** —^yv<WV\. i*-v ^ Italy* s departure from gold does seem like a definite step lAteLT?' toward^mao^ It is the sort of thing that, s most common dJL war**time action. Italian currency and bonds have hitherto been guaranteed by a gold base amounting to forty per cent of their value. Now that forty per cent figure is off. There's no assurance hh what percentage of gold base will remain, if any. The wsam immediate effect is to release a great quantity of gold in Italy, gold to be ised as payment for purchases in foreign countries - war purchases. If that looks like a decided war step, something is reported from Paris that looks like a peace step. Hitherto, France las been keeping silent, England doing the talking* anaso^Fran ifc A -'blKT steps up with a plan to prevent war^ Paris, it is Sold, is y gPlQPIA - 4 and decidedly backing Rome, France will not oppose Italy at the forthcoming League of Nations Ethiopian session. But the report is that France will present a sort of compromise plan, whereby Haile Selassie would give Italy a series of economic, political and eoloni zing^The French idea would seem to be - give Mussolini what amounts to the protectorate he demands. But don't make it look exactly like a protectorate, don* t call it that, and thereby save the face of the King of Kings. "¥vv£je ~D»\. "tla. u_erW* A paragraph from Germany — the organization of Catholic War Veterans has been ordered disbanded. And so Goering's threat to put an end to all Catholic societies begins ) to materialThe^War Veteran part of it suggests a danger to the Steel Helmets, German equivalent the American Legion, %is general league of German War Veterans has not been altogether (s-M in harmony with the Nazi leaders, and now the Stalhelm^is afraid that it too is likely to be abolished. Another paragraph from Berlin — the revelation of a secret billion dollar item of public debt* This entry on the red side of the ledger was never made public — until now. The Minister of Economics in telling about it adds that the German people will have to make sacrifices to pay the secret billion. Observei^r^fre connecting this bit of financial mystery to the A pressure on Jews and Catholics. They say that Germans will have to take pay cuts and tighten their belts. So the Hitler regim is anticipating the discontent that is going to come, anticipating it by clamping' down in advance on the elements t lat upQ least Nazi: strengthening iron control, forstalli g / A approaching crisis Paragraph from. Washington. Congressman Dickstein, M ^ ^ ^ "^*WvO ^ lenowned anti—anti“*SeiD,it©^^arises and tells of a Nazi newspaper called "Der Stomer”, He says it’s printed in Germany hut is circulated in this country. He explains he’s hitting particularly at "Der Stspraer” in the bill he introudeed into Congress today. This Dickstein Bill says;- "Don’t you dare send through the mails any publication stirring up religious and racial hatred. Penalty- five thousand dollars fine or five years in jail or both. Dickstein would like to put the ante on the anti-Semite. AJU&* :|j It was 11 ^rt— one Tor the triple A today. The Senate passed the bill.to bolster up that threefold repitition of the first letter of the alphabet. And that ends one of the most stubbornly fought congressional battles that Washington has seen in a long time. It was as simple as »a-b-c» that the A.A.A. was tsixtoigiex endangered by the Supreme Court decision against its alphabet brother, the N.R.A. Doubt toscm centered around the right of Congress to hand over so much power and prerogative to the President, So the Administration's way of bucking up the Agricultural Adjustment Act was to ask Congress to pass yang±^± specific laws of its own, laws that will make the triple—A operations work legally by act of Congress * rather than by act of the President?— Congress specifically on record as authorizing the payments of money to farmers who agree to limit their crops. Also a precise congressional okay on the m L x collection of processing tax. One point though was A A over which abandoned, the principle of price-fixing -xwhivh such a bitter . <5; {A jz <3' d? (?- ^ tooth and claw scrap was fought. *— a || i I VTRflTN ISLES Political peace falls on the Virgin Islands, as the President appoints a new Governor. . He is Lawrence Cramer of Hew York The Virgin Island controversy closes with what looks like a bit of compromising and smoothing down. The new Governor succeeds Paul Pearson, who has been under the most flaming kind of fire, a target <n- for all sorts of charges^ denunciatory high explosive. Paul Pearson is out, but only out of the Virgin Islands, not out of everyv/here. The President appoints Pearson tefmn&V to another job. He becomes Assistant Director of Public Housing, — Vyu*J ^ Vu^‘ RELIEF 3J7 It's not only In South Dakota that the relief payments have caused a shortage of harvest workers in the field. In Iowa able bodied men have been taken off the relief rolls and told they could get jobs at threshing the wheat. The same thing in Kansas, where men on the dole were told that their names would be taken off the rolls if they turned dovm temporary farm employment. Illinois stopped relief work in rural areas as a means of combating a shortage of farm labor. Nebraska and North Dakota^cu? down on their relief projects. A And so has Redwood County in MirSesota. The S0uth Dakota case in the news today gives us a picture of workers preferring I forty cents an hour on federal relief farm jobs. And their reasoning is simple. They are afraid they wonft be able to return to the relief rolls after the harvesting is done. They prefer^permdnent^ This has created such a scarcity of farm labor that the tempotary^ Assistant Relief Administrator has promulgated an order that any man who refuses a job will have his name scratched off the relief roll immediately. SPORTS The glory of the last stand certainly did flare high at Wimbledon today -- the blazing courage of men with their backs against the wall. The announcer on the short wave broad­ cast told us in the early part of the match that the job was up for Allison and Van Ryn, The Germans were racketing them all ova* the court from the net to the baselines faster than they’d ever gone before -- especially the brilliant Baron Gottfried von Gramm who was smashing the ball with a blazing abandon and precision. But what did the later reports from England tell us? The Americans won! Came up from behind, battling against the longest of tennis odds -- to smack out a breathless victory. On this side of the ocean the sporting fireworks blazed up in an excitement of first inning home runs. Yes that crucial game in the American League in the series that may decide the pennant crashed into action with a home-run-first-inning for Detroit and also for New York. Hank Greenberg, the burly Tiger smacked one so far that he ran all the way around the bases. Then Mickey Cochran, the catcher-manager did the same. Not to be daunted, the Yanks came up and Lou Gehrig took a mighty swing for SPORTS - 2 a four bagger. So the t irst inning home run score was Detroit 2 , New York 1, — 3 homers in the first. But when the last inning came around the score for tallies was something different. And that's what counts — Yanks 7, Tigers 5. But anyway the crucial game began with home runs while I'll end with a run home, and — SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW